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Deltawerken online

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www.deltawerken.com Since 1998 Deltawerken Online exists, a site about the Deltawerken (“Deltaworks”) that stemmed from that year’s Thinkquest competition. Job van de Sande, a 22-year old student from Zeeland, was one of the initiators and manages the site ever since. In recent years water and water management became important subjects. From the questions and visitors’ feedback it appeared that there was much need for more extensive information than offered on the site. A good water policy is necessary to tackle problems. Better information about durable water management and further societal involvement and participation will be needed to come to solutions. That’s why Job wanted to extend the information on the site to a broader level of water and water management. With the help of Digitale Pioniers a new site has been developed that now offers high level information with an international character.

Final Products

The site www.deltawerken.com consists of 500 pages filled with all sorts of content, in Dutch as well as in English. Through texts, photos, films, animations, newspaper articles, maps, etc. Deltawerken shows that water management is more than just raising dikes. There is much more at stake, like security, economy, employment, nature, and recreation. With the CMS pages are easy to publish, without further knowledge of programming languages. Via interactive applications it’s possible to become a member of the website. This enables one to mail to the forum. These members are linked to the newsletter module which eases the communication with them.

Impact

For the long term several new options are already mapped out, like, for instance, alternative translations, the adding of webcams, or the commercialization of some parts of the site. Apart from that, one thinks about founding a few semi-autonomous teams of volunteers who can work on different aspects like fundraising, development, or quality and maintenance.

This project was executed between February 2004 and February 2005.

Contact

Stichting Deltawerken online
Job van de Sande
www.deltawerken.com



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